‘Not A Scintilla Of Evidence To Support Any Allegation Of Corruption’

Further to the O’Higgins Commission’s report being handed to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday, which hasn’t been published yet…

RTÉ reports:

The O’Higgins Commission of Inquiry has found that former minister for justice Alan Shatter took allegations of garda whistleblowers very seriously.

The unpublished report said he had very substantial concerns and had displayed active and personal concern.

Given that most of the allegations had been examined or were previously reviewed, the actions of the then minister were amply justified, it believes.

In relation to the former garda commissioner, Martin Callinan, the report states that clearly and unambiguously there was not a scintilla of evidence to support any allegation of any type of corruption.

The commission found that any aspersions on his integrity were unfounded and deeply hurtful.

It also said that exchanges between the garda commissioner, the justice minister and the Department of Justice were at all times professional and appropriate.

The O’Higgins Commission of Inquiry also found that garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe acted out of genuine and legitimate concerns.

It concluded the garda sergeant showed courage and performed a public service at considerable personal cost.

I’m sure I’m not they only one whom gets annoyed at what the way you write like you do in the way that you did and are you maybe too lazy or don’t care and could be doing it on purpose anyway to annoy me and people like me who don’t like it too like me.

It would be nice if you didn’t do that and did do what I’m asking you not to do.
Do it, please.
Thanks.

Agreed. Has no place in a judicial report. Next it’ll be poor Shatter breaking out in hives due to stress. Irrelevant.

This kind of stinks. If both the guards and the government did everything right and took whistle-blowing seriously, and Maurice McCabe did the right thing when he went about whistle-blowing – what the hell went wrong? The guy was pilloried and hounded for it.

“In relation to the former garda commissioner, Martin Callinan, the report states that clearly and unambiguously there was not a scintilla of evidence to support any allegation of any type of corruption.”
Callinan for Taoiseach!

So, will Noirin launch an investigation into how RTE has got its hands on an unpublished report? Will she ask Reynolds for his 12 phones?
If the wording is correct, then it is worded in a way to make McCabe look like a little boy (that he was a good boy for reporting the abuses, but they were not so important really) and worded in a way to get callinan and Shatter off the hook. Facts are facts though. Who appointed this fellow – Enda Kenny? Oh!

He is “steeped” in Fine Gael, according to former Law Library colleagues. Mr Justice O’Higgins is a first cousin of the late Fine Gael politician Tom F O’Higgins, a former chief justice, whose father Tom is regarded as the “founder of the blueshirts”.

So where did it all start for the South Dublin man whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather went by the moniker Thomas F O’Higgins? The first question has to be why he himself was not christened ‘Thomas F’?

“The simple reason is because I was beaten to it by my eldest brother!” Coming fifth in a family of seven children, he ended up being called after his uncle Kevin. “My father was his godson, I think.”

He had a lot to live up to, given the O’Higgins’ legal and political heritage. Kevin’s father Tom was a stalwart in Fine Gael, a barrister and judge who subsequently became Chief Justice and a judge of the European Court in Luxembourg – as well as being a candidate in the 1966 and 1973 presidential elections.

This looks like the “Blueshirt’s doing a Whitewash”, we need to address what did
Shatter do about the allegations, and it was never inferred or alleged that Martin
Callinan was “corrupt”, what need’s be to established, what actions both indivduals took when they were made aware of the matters Sgt Maurice McCabe raised, in effect were the penalty points restored where they were cancelled, then there is the Callinan comment uttered at a Dail Committee…”of disgusting”….was there ever a retraction or an apolgy, and the person seated beside Callinan, was Noirin.